Louis I. Kahn

The Construction of the Kimbell Art Museum

The volume is devoted to Louis Kahn, one of the leading figures of 20th-century architecture, and his major masterpiece the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth.

This publication may prove very useful to students and to anyone interested in gaining further knowledge of the distinctive features of the Kimbell Museum.

It documents the long and arduous quest that often characterizes a creative process, even that of a great master such as Louis I. Kahn.

The design of the Kimbell Art Museum is the product of extraordinary intuition and results in a masterly synthesis that solves all the problems posed by the site and the specific purpose of the construction.